Since I’m a dedicated fan of this series, I bought a copy of this game from a shop called Game in Edinburgh, but they didn’t think I was 18 so I had to go back later. It has alot of graphic violence.
The game begins with a man in his twenties called Henry Townshend awakening from a nightmare. Then he discovers he cannot leave his apartment which is room 302 of South Ashfield Heights, and it happens to be near a really fucked up town called Silent Hill. This is because some nice person has chained up his door from the inside. What is he going to do? Well he cannot open his windows because they won’t open and he cannot use the phone, so he’s a sitting duck. He finds a hole behind a desk that he can use to look at his neighbour Eileen, but why doesn’t he shout for help right there right then? Henry finds a much bigger hole in his bathroom so he enters it and it takes him to a subway. There is a lady there, and so Henry has to look after her. These dogs then start populating the darn subway. If you’ve seen the dogs in Resident Evil, well, these mutts are indeed nuts.
Henry’s room acts as a portal and you can only save there too. In the early parts of the game your health will be revived too. Unlike the other Silent Hill outings with Harry, James, Maria and Heather, Henry cannot carry an infinite amount of items so now he can only carry 10, and he has to keep the rest in a chest in his home. When you are in his home, you see everything from a first person perspective, a first in the series by Konami.
If you like being scared this will scare you. I laughed at those huge apes in the streets. I’ll give you some great advice though, don’t let Eileen get hurt too much or if will affect the ending.
So what have I learnt about this, well alcohol is a bitch and I’m going to cut down. Also notice, how I’ve just talked about alot of crap in this reply….interesting.
Minotaur, don’t post random shit in this forum. Gen chat is fine with that, here, we are not. I will start deleting your posts.
Anyway, I’ve heard otherwise, that SH4 is a brilliant game. And is infact the first 18 rated on of the series over here…I’m intrested in why though, can anyone lighten this area up?
It has an 18 rating because there is graphic violence and the other games were gory but there is more claret this time. Nasty stuff, a dryer that sprays blood all over your laundry room.
i finally played this game the other day (after wanting to since it first came out but i couldnt cos i didnt have a ps2 at college. and when i came home our ps2 was broken. fucking kids. i had to borrow one from a friend who demanded to borrow my gamecube in return.)
i must say, this game was… … …not very good. it took me nearly 11 hours to beat it (a lot for a sh, yes?) and i absolutely hated the going to the worlds twice. i quite liked the idea of having to go back to the room all the time to save and whatnot. but i felt like it should have had more things for you to do inside. more items that you could use for things besides like the kitchen sink or whatever. the storyline was pretty boring. and it wasnt very creepy. i think that was because you had that girl eileen with you for most of the game. it made the hill not so silent iykwim.
on the whole, it was just a major letdown. it didnt creep me out. i didnt feel the need to know what was happening next. after so many hours and visiting the same places again it kind of became a chore to finish it.
and those ghosts were just so damn annoying. =/
I hated the monster designs as well. The monsters in SH3 were pretty abstract in their appearance. They didn’t resemble any monsters I’d seen before, and their actions were much more interesting. The minute I saw those human ghosts in SH4 I was immediately put off.
haha! i laughed at those when i first saw them! when you see them again in that one room later in the game i played around running around all of them for a long time just laughing at being chased by a wheelchair.
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